SmarterThanTheAverageBear
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The Reaper weighs in at 2.2 million units on the Scoville scale.The Scotch Bonnet or Habanero is about as hot as I go.
Any hotter and it's torture.
And the good thing about em both? They actually taste good and the heat doesnt drag on like a Jalapeno.
As a rule , the habanero is MUCH hotter than a jalapeno.
around here with eat jalapenos on everything, eggs, burgers, tacos, whatever, i could eat them plain.
The point is no matter how hot a Scotch Bonnet or Habanero is,it only last a couple of minutes vs. the good six or seven of a hot Jap.
The capsaicin in a Hab may be hotter but the amount in a Jap far exceeds it.
That's because typically a jalapeno has more seeds than the other two. And of course the seeds is where the heat is.
I like the extended burn myself. I went to this restaraunt in Thailand once and ordered a bowl of Tom Yum. The old man taking my order asked me how hot I wanted it, I told him to bring it to me just the way he eats it. He actually told me "no much too hot for white man, I bring you tourist hot" I insisted and he brought me out the single hottest dish I've ever had. I ate ever delicious, painful drop of it.
that dish uses a Thai Bird's Eye chili that ranges anywhere between 50K and 100K on the Scoville scale btw. There are hotter peppers and dishes out there , but to me I wouldn't enjoy any hotter b/c where is the flavor?
Yes, and we both agree, that's too damn hot to be enjoyable. It's just hot to be hot.